Class Dismissed: Making College Work for Everyone in a Deeply Divided America

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In this provocative new book, Richard A. Greenwald a working-class kid from Queens turned historian, professor, and college dean argues that we are at a fork in the road. The country can either move further into a two-tier higher education system divided by class and access, or we can stop talking naively about college as an engine of opportunity a

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Author Bio

Richard A. Greenwald is a dean and professor of social history at Brooklyn College. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, In These Times, The Progressive, Bookforum, Businessweek, and the Chronicle of Higher Education and is a co-editor of Labor Rising (The New Press) and Sweatshop USA. He lives in New York City.